As your muscles call for more oxygen (as much as 15 times more oxygen than when you're at rest), your breathing rate increases. Once the muscles surrounding your lungs cannot move any faster, you've reached what's called your VO2 maxâyour maximum capacity of oxygen use. The higher your VO2 max, the fitter you are.
Tingling in the Fingers as a Symptom of Neck Pain. 1  Numbness or tingling in the fingers that occurs simultaneously with neck pain is a sign of problems with the nerves within the cervical spine. 2  Many conditions can cause problems in the cervical spine, and they can irritate or impede nerves to the hands and fingers.
History of Arthritis. If a person has ever had arthritis in the wrists, hands or thumbs, it can cause the median nerve to become compressed, which in turn causes the numbness and tingling of the thumb and other fingers.ith this, if nerves are compressed in 2 different areas of the neck, arm, wrist or hands, then numb thumb may happen. For example, someone may have a compressed nerve in the neck and another in the wrist, which may form a double crush, resulting in the numbness of the thumb or entire hand. 4.